Amulet by Bolano Roberto, First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Mild ripple in back dust jacket panel, otherwise fine.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 184 pages. Published in 2006. The author's fourth book to be translated into English. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Roberto Bolano's "Amulet" in a felicitous English translation. Focusses on the Uruguayan poet Auxilio Lacouture who runs across a host of Latin-American artists and writers, among them "Arturo Belano", Bolano's alter ego. "Amulet" remains in Auxilio's first-person voice while still allowing for the frenetic scattering of other personalities Bolano effortlessly and masterfully handles. What exactly is Roberto Bolano's achievement? "He emerged as a writer at a time when Latin America no longer believed in utopias, when paradise had become hell, and that sense of monstrousness and waking nightmares and constant flight from something horrid permeates '2666' and all his work. A writer who worked without a net, who went all out, with no brakes, and in doing so, created a new way to be a great Latin American writer" (Rodrigo Fresan). The consistently high level of Bolano's virtuosity is almost miraculous when one sees it as having been achieved during a brief and miserable personal life. It was as though he turned to literature not just to complement or complete but to change his life altogether. By the time of his untimely death in 2003 at the age of 50, Bolano was universally regarded as the greatest Spanish-language novelist of our time. "The real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Roberto Bolano collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERTO BOLANO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0811216640. no.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Near fine first USA printing in fine dust wrapper. A new copy. The book is square and unread but with a few minute spots to the edges of the text block. The dust wrapper is complete and in perfect condition.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. Published in the UK three years after the American first printing. Both editions were published posthumousl;y as the author died in 2003. Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. A highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Hardcover; First Printing. Condition: F. Dust Jacket Condition: F. First American Edition. First American ediiton, fine in fine DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New York: New Directions [2007]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. A pristine unread copy, very fine/very fine in all respects. Smoke free. Shipped in well padded box. The fourth book to be published in English by Bolano, after BY NIGHT IN CHILE, DISTANT STAR and LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First published as a New Directions Book in 2006. Translated by Chris Andrews. 184pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in NEW condition. "A novel of extraordinary intensity, AMULET is a highly charged first-person account that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. It begins: 'This is going to be a horror story.' The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico City in the 1960s and has spent years hanging out with the young poets in the cafes and bars. She has become the 'Mother of Mexican Poetry.' Tall, thin, and blonde, she is famous as the sole person who resists the army's invasion of the university campus: she hides in a ladies' room for twelve days. Auxilio recalls her adventures in exile, and talks about two elderly lions of Spanish poetry as well as three remarkable women: the unhappy young philosopher Elena, the exiled Catalan painter Remedios Varo, and Lilian Serpas, a poet who once slept with Che Guevara. Auxilio also shares her love for her favorite young poet who is none other than Arturo Belano (Bolano's fictional stand-in throughout his books)." [jacket copy] "Bolano wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own."--Francisco Goldman, The New York Times Magazine. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. UNCORRECTED BOOK PROOF. Book in unread, FINE condition. `Amulet is a short, original, engaged and engaging novel; a good introduction to the longer works of this writer. Roberto Bolaño's prose, which moves between the colloquial, abrupt and deliberately awkward, and the lyrical, cannot be easy to translate. Chris Andrew has done it beautifully' --Times Literary Supplement.